Shakir Bullock: Welcome To Cardinal
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Filmed By: Myles Mcintyre
Mitch Bonadies
Tom Landess
Intro & Outro:
Patrik Brastrom
Edited by:
Kevin Blann
10 classics to watch while you quarantine
10 videos to watch while you quarantine. Like many teenagers growing up in the ’90s/early ’00s, Shlohmo got his early kicks from punk music and skating. The Wedidit boss, real name Henry Laufer, grew up in LA and gained much of his musical education through skate videos – the grainy, DIY aesthetic and raw sounds coming to make an indelible imprint on his own work. The VHS skate tapes he collected for repeat viewing got him hooked on rap music and beat-led stuff, becoming his entry point into artists like Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow and Flying Lotus. On the brink of dropping his first album in four years, ‘The End’, via Friends of Friends/Wedidit, Shlohmo explains that the LP is “vaguely about the end of the world, but from the viewpoint of smoking on the couch during the extinction event. Reading a nice book while the meteor hits. The fake peace of insularity during chaos.” On the apocalypse-themed album, which arrives next month, he’s used toy drum machines, a Korg Mono...
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